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Fidessa Plot Thickens
Fidessa has revealed that ION Trading, a vendor of trading software, and SS&C Technologies, a provider of investment management software and services, are the new suitors attempting to woo the firm away from its acquisition deal with Temenos, which was due to be voted in today – but as competition escalates, who will come out…
ITRS Adds Integrations to Monitor Big Data Platforms, Container Technologies to Follow
ITRS has added a set of six integrations to its Geneos solution that allow users to monitor open source, big data technologies – including Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Elasticsearch – and troubleshoot, analyse and optimise the performance of applications running on each of these big data stacks. The company is also working on…
Trading Technologies Adds Connectivity Services in Tokyo
Trading Technologies (TT) has strengthened its position in Asia-Pacific with the introduction of execution and client connectivity services in Tokyo available via its TT platform, which provides accessibility to low-latency execution through the company’s worldwide network of colocated data centres. The connectivity covers Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) through the JPX colocation space, and proximity connectivity…
CQG Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Best Execution Algos to its Trading Platform
Quantitative Brokers (QB) has partnered CQG to offer its best execution algorithms for futures trading on the CQG platform. Guy Cirillo, head of partnerships sales at QB, an independent provider of algorithms and data driven analytics to clients in the futures and US cash treasury markets, says: “As one of few independent providers of fixed…
Fidessa Delays Temenos Deal as Late Bidders Join the Party
By Lauren McAughtry Fidessa has postponed its shareholder vote on the £1.4 billion cash offer from Temenos after receiving approaches from two separate, as yet undisclosed third parties, who are each considering making an offer for the firm at a premium to the Temenos bid. Under the Temenos offer of February 20th, which had the…
What’s Next for Financial Services and MiFID II
By: Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS In Hollywood, with every movie that hits the headlines its sequel is right around the corner. When the credits roll, it no longer marks the end of a film, but the next step in a long and lengthy franchise. The same applies in the world of financial services….
Quant Insight Adds Predata Geopolitical Predictive Risk Signals to Analysis Framework
Quant Insight and Predata have partnered to add Predata’s global geopolitical risk signals from its predictive analytics platform to Quant Insight’s quantitative macro analysis framework and processes. The aim of the partnership is to give institutional investors and traders a better grasp on political, financial and economic factors driving asset prices, and insight to help…
FlexTrade Integrates Kensho AI Driven Analytics into FlexTRADER EMS
FlexTrade has integrated Kensho Technologies’ pre-trade analytics solution into its FlexTRADER EMS, providing a real-time event feed to help traders make decisions when executing a trade and enhance best execution. Kensho captures events to surface company-specific developments, such as product launches, mergers and acquisitions or corporate announcements. These events come from news outlets and other…
CME Group Acquisition of NEX Group Combines Cash, Futures and OTC Markets
CME Group has reached agreement to acquire London-based interdealer broker NEX Group in a deal valued at £3.8 billion. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018 and will bring together two trading industry giants with the ambition to deliver better ways to trade and manage risk across futures, cash and…
Speakerbus and Revista Partner to Offer Voice Compliance and Trade Reconstruction
Speakerbus and Revista have partnered to provide cloud-based voice compliance and instant trade reconstruction capabilities. The Revista platform has been integrated with the Speakerbus high-performance trader voice management portfolio to provide a layer of compliance, while Revista captures every single interaction throughout a trade transaction lifecycle to support trade reconstruction. Andy Wodhams, CEO at Speakerbus…